Publication of James Mcphersons the war that forged a nation, and louis masurs lincolns last speech. As i said before i really wanted to do this event because over the years i have been educated and stimulated by reading these two historians. And i also got an extra bonus on baseball from louis masurs book on the first world series in 1903. But as when you actually spent time lobbying the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 65 and all the Voting Rights acts after that this book, these books in the work of these authors this isnt their only work as you know. Helps us to understand why the civil war, its causes, its aftermath and matters affecting raise, regional conflicts within our borders the boundaries between state and national authority, Nation Authority was a word that lincoln used, and with the the significance of the game change a, the postcivil war amendments, and how long it took, to have a way of making them real. So we are often a people who have trouble wi
Folklife center. The library hosted this event as part of its summer lecture series. I am going to start the program off. I want to leave time for q a for stephen afterwards. I have a boatload of questions and i imagine the audience is going to as well. As littlewho know about the American Folklife Center as i did, i will share notes i jotted down. Our speaker today is Stephen Winick, who is with the Folklife Center. I will tell you more about his job and a second. The center is located at the library of congress, that is our theme for this month lecture series. The center was created in 1976 to preserve and present american folk life. Rather Ambitious Mission that involves researching,ocumentation, archiving performance, exhibitions, publications, everything that any Cultural Organization likes to do, the Folklife Center tries to do it. Is made up of 2700 collections, that is according to their website. It could it includes 150,000 sound recordings, 3 million items. Youll be sharing s
From time to time. Who knows . Amy the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern American Folk Music movement. Now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. The surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japaneseamericans during world war ii. It continued until the early 1970s as he wrote some of the most famous antiwar songs of the 20th century. Dont be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy we will speak to peter seegers biographer, David King Dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The number of refugees that have entered europe this year has topped one million. International organization for migration says the tally marks fourfold
Well, i assumed most of my life that if it wasnt a microphone under the bed am a they were tapping the phone from time to time and opening my mail from time to time. Who knows . Amy the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern American Folk Music movement. Now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. The surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japaneseamericans during world war ii. It continued until the early 1970s as he wrote some of the most famous antiwar songs of the 20th century. Dont be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy we will speak to peter seegers biographer, David King Dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The n
Life that if it wasnt a microphone under the bed am a they were tapping the phone from time to time and opening my mail from time to time. Who knows . Amy the late folk artist and activist pete seeger was a musical and political icon who helped create the modern American Folk Music movement. Now there are some new pages to add to his songbook, the government has released nearly 1800 pages that reveal the fbi spied on him for almost 30 years. The surveillance began when seeger protested the targeting of japaneseamericans during world war ii. It continued until the early 1970s as he wrote some of the most famous antiwar songs of the 20th century. Dont be a nervous nelly, the captain said to him deep in the big muddy amy we will speak to peter seegers biographer, David King Dunaway about the more than 1700 pages the government has released. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The number of refugees that have